Review Article
Shedding Light on the Controversy Surrounding the Temporal Decline in Human Sperm Counts: A Systematic Review
Table 1
Summary of studies, published from 1995 up to date, showing an unambiguous decline in sperm counts.
| Publication date | Author | Location | Study period | Number of participants |
| 1995 |
Auger et al. [19] | France | 1973–1992 | 1,351 | 1996 | Irvine et al. [20] | Scotland | 1984–1995 | 577 | 1996 | Van Waeleghem et al. [21] | Belgium | 1977–1995 | 416 | 1996 | De Mouzon et al. [22] | France | 1989–1994 | 7,714 | 1996 | Menchini-Fabris et al. [23] | Italy | 1970–1990 | 4,518 | 1996 | Adamopoulos et al. [24] | Greece | 1977–1993 | 2,385 | 1999 | Ulstein et al. [25] | Norway | 1975–1994 | 4,072 | 1998 | Bonde et al. [26] | Denmark | 1986–1995 | 1,196 | 1999 | Bilotta et al. [27] | Italy | 1981–1995 | 1,068 | 1999 | Zhang et al. [28] | China | 1983–1996 | 9,292 | 2003 | Almagor et al. [29] | Israel | 1990–2000 | 2,638 | 2003 | Vicari et al. [30] | Italy | 1982–1999 | 716 | 2005 | Lackner et al. [31] | Austria | 1986–2003 | 7,780 | 2007 | Sripada et al. [32] | Scotland | 1994–2005 | 4,832 | 2008 | Liang et al. [33] | China | 1980–2005 | 5,834 | 2009 | Feki et al. [34] | Tunisia | 1996–2007 | 2,940 | 2010 | Molina et al. [35] | Argentina | 1995–2004 | 9,168 | 2012 | Geoffroy-Siraudin et al. [36] | France | 1988–2007 | 10,932 | 2012 | Haimov-Kochman et al. [37] | Israel | 1995–2009 | 2,182 | 2013 | Mendiola et al. [38] | Spain | 2001–2011 | 273 |
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